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Victoria’s boosted rooftop solar rebate fully subscribed in minutes
Victoria's rooftop PV rebate again taken up in record time, with boosted September offering of 6,500 discounted home solar panel systems disappearing in under an hour.
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Solar farms switch off en masse as coal plants flex their muscle in Queensland
Solar and coal are fighting for dominance in the Queensland market. On Wednesday, coal won - with solar farms switching off en masse as prices plunged. But for how long?
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Greenland: 'It's scary to see the ice melting'
CP Daily: Wednesday September 4, 2019
Early animal had 'complex behaviour'
After bronze and iron, welcome to the plastic age, say scientists
Plastic pollution has entered the fossil record, research shows
Plastic pollution is being deposited into the fossil record, research has found, with contamination increasing exponentially since 1945.
Scientists suggest the plastic layers could be used to mark the start of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which human activities have come to dominate the planet. They say after the bronze and iron ages, the current period may become known as the plastic age.
Continue reading...Memories of a dark and polluted Thames | Brief letters
King’s Cross Central | HS2 | River Thames | Van slogans
I was pleased that the developer of the King’s Cross area will stop using facial recognition equipment (Report, 3 September). Of course, if Camden council had paid heed to the local objectors in 2004 and 2005, it would have adopted all the roads and public footpaths on the site and could have prevented the installation of this surveillance. By the way, the development is called King’s Cross Central, not King’s Cross, which is an area of London in two boroughs with a large and diverse population. It was a bit of a shock to read in your report that “King’s Cross is owned by a consortium…”
Diana Shelley
London
• Larry Elliott is right to call for the first phase of HS2 to start with connecting northern cities with each other rather than with London (Business view, 4 September), but it is essential that such a programme should include the north-east.
Jeremy Beecham
Labour, House of Lords
LCFS Market: California credits break through $200 barrier to notch all-time high
ANALYSIS: Dissipating ‘no-deal’ Brexit threat comes with EU ETS risks of its own
Sexy beasts: why Brexit is giving zoo animals the horn
UK breeders are hastily shipping in potential suitors for their rare species in the hope that they get it on ahead of a no-deal scenario
Name: Brexit breeding.
Age: Very much of its time.
Continue reading...Germany to ban use of glyphosate weedkiller by end of 2023
Chemical is blamed for death of insects and suspected to cause cancer in humans
Germany has said it will phase out the controversial weedkiller glyphosate because it wipes out insect populations crucial for ecosystems and pollination of food crops.
The chemical, also suspected by some experts to cause cancer in humans, is to be banned by the end of 2023 when the EU’s approval period for it expires, ministers said.
Continue reading...EU Midday Market Brief
Global food producers 'failing to face up to role' in climate crisis
Report urges meat, dairy and seafood companies to address impact of industry’s deforestation, use of antibiotics and emissions
The world’s biggest producers of meat, dairy and seafood are failing to tackle the enormous impact they are having on the planet through deforestation, the routine use of antibiotics and greenhouse gas emissions, a report warns.
The Coller Fairr index ranks 50 of the largest global meat, dairy and fish producers by looking at risk factors from use of antibiotics to deforestation and labour abuses. The producers are the “hidden” supply chain, providing meat and dairy to global brands including McDonald’s, Tesco, Nestlé and Walmart.
Continue reading...Humans, the environment and the global water crisis - in pictures
The American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz has won the Leica Oskar Barnack photography award with his eight-year project exploring the global crisis around water, and how different cultures interact with this precious resource
Continue reading...Western Australia govt moves to unblock A$65 mln carbon credit bottleneck
How solar is changing the energy market: No pumping at night
For first time, Queensland's biggest pumped hydro unit didn't pump at night in August, it soaked up only excess solar. Meanwhile, Queensland hits the price floor.
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Greenland's rapidly vanishing glaciers
Communications Manager, Carbon Market Institute – Melbourne
Grow your own forest: how to plant trees to help save the planet
Forest restoration is the number-one strategy for stopping global warming, according to some scientists – but Britain is falling far short. Here’s a complete guide to what you should be planting, and where
‘Tree planting ‘has mind-blowing potential’ to tackle climate crisis.” That’s how the Guardian reported findings from the Crowther Lab in Switzerland two months ago. Billions more trees, scientists claimed, could remove two-thirds of all the carbon dioxide created by human activity. Forest restoration “isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” said the lead scientist, climate change ecologist Tom Crowther.
Such a programme might take 100 years to be fully effective, but along the way it would reduce the consequences of the climate crisis – protecting soil from erosion, reducing the risk of flooding and providing habitats for a vast range of animals and other plant species.
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